What is recorded here

Fairy forts disguise themselves as abandoned farmyards, hiding ancient borders beneath briars and forgetfulness. Cloncrew is no different: a circular scarped edge, a waterlogged fosse, and a narrow gap where the boundary fails. The marsh keeps what the field tries to erase.

In rough marshy pasture, atop low rise with higher ground to ENE. Circular area (35.5m N-S; 35m E-W) enclosed by scarped edge (H 0.5m; Wth ) with external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 5.4m). Scarp is best preserved N->SE. Fosse, waterlogged along W side, is heavily masked by furze. Field boundary, thickly covered with briars, skirts around outer edge of fosse. Gap (Wth 2m) in field boundary at ESE. Interior, under pasture, slopes down gently to SW. Field boundaries abut enclosure at WSW, N and NNE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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